Physical description: On good parchment. iv + 240 + iv + 1 leaves. Hard point ruling. 268 x 170 mm. Imperfect.
Contents: Written in Italian humanistic script, by a scribe apparently without Greek (G or g written in text, some space left in later quires). Greek words added by an expert scribe. Medieval quire signatures. Wanting 5 leaves.
Decoration: Initials: at start of each book, gold on blue (with groups of three white dots), green and red with white vine decoration; 2-line in blue.
Binding: 18th century(?) vellum, gilt edges.
Provenance 1490-1514: written by a scribe who worked for Vespasiano da Bisticci (Florentine notary Ser Agnolo di Jacopo de' Dinuzi of San Gimignano); Greek added by Giorgio Antonio Vespucci (1434-1514).
Provenance -1895: Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) MS 6750. His sale 21 March 1895, lot 44 at £15.
Provenance 1895-1898: H. S. Nichols, bookseller(?) bought from Phillipps sale above.
Provenance 1898-1898: Harold Baillie Weaver (1860-1926) sale at Christies 29-31 March 1898, lot 140.
Provenance 1926-1926: Bequeathed by John Percival Postgate (1853-1926), Professor of Latin, to the University of Liverpool, 1926.
Published citations and unpublished notes:
1978: former MSS handlist records note by Dr A.C. de la Mare, May 1978, "Florentine MS of c.1460-70; the scribe (very prolific) worked for Vespasiano. The Greek was added by Giorgio Antonio Vespuccio."
Microfilm copy available for consultation.
